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Submission Guidelines for Individual Presentation Proposals Including Papers, Roundtables and Poster Session

All individual presentation proposals must include the following information: (a) the summary of your proposal and relevant presentation information; and (b) a full proposal with a total length of 1,000 words (excluding references) for use in judging the merits of the proposed paper, roundtable or poster. Sample Proposal(.pdf)

The centralized on-line submission system will prompt you for the different sections to submit.

(a) Summary:

  1. Title The paper title should be entered with proper capitalization (e.g., the first letter of each appropriate word is capitalized--this title will be directly entered in the program).

  2. Abstract An abstract of 100 to 120 words (to publish on line).

  3. Descriptors The Online Proposal Submission System will prompt for up to three descriptors from a list. These descriptors will be used in the Subject Index of the CIES Program.

  4. Region and country You will be asked to select a region (s) and country (ies) of the world relevant to your proposal.

  5. Special requests Please let us know whether you have any special requirements.

  6. Preferred session format: You will have the opportunity to rank your preferred session format for placement of your individual proposal: (1) paper sessions, (2) roundtable or (3) poster session. The program committee will try to honor your first preference however due to the many papers we receive you may be assigned to your 2nd or 3rd choice. To help you make a good choice for your needs please decide whether your preference is to interact with a large audience and 3 or 4 co-presenters; if so you may select option 1: paper session; if you rather interact with a relatively small group of presenters with similar interests to you who will spend the session time discussing papers in a more sustained fashion, you may select option 2: roundtable; and finally if you rather explain your work in a more visual fashion to a variety of people in short but informative interactions, you may select format 3: poster session.

  7. Audiovisual request

We anticipate that standard presentation equipment (LCD and overhead projectors and PowerPoint-equipped PCs) will be available for all sessions. Presentation slides and electronic materials must be formatted to be PC / Microsoft Windows compatible. Presentations must be in a “memory stick” and ready to upload in the computer available for that purpose at the conference.

(b) Full proposal of 1,000 words (excluding references). This will need to be uploaded into the on-line submission system preferable in “Word” or RTF, and should include the following eight points:

  1. Objectives or purposes, and main questions that the paper, roundtable or poster will address.

  2. Thesis statement stating what the paper, roundtable or poster expects readers/audience to know, believe, or understand.

  3. Perspective(s) or theoretical/conceptual framework including connections to the literature or to previous experiences related to the paper, roundtable or poster to be presented.

  4. Modes of inquiry, methods, and techniques used to attain the objectives or purposes, and main questions posed in the paper, roundtable or poster.

  5. Data sources or evidence to support conclusions and how they extend understandings of the particular issues addressed by the paper, roundtable or poster presented.

  6. Key Findings or emerging results.

  7. Contribution to the field of comparative/international education or to the conference theme Re-Imagining Education and significance of results or findings; this section addresses the “so what” of the work presented.

  8. Conclusion and future directions.